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title: "Provisioning vNIOS for Google Cloud using Metadata"
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<span style="color: #000000">You can provision the Infoblox vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> instance through the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Management **</span><span style="color: #000000">-> </span><span style="color: #000000">**Metadata**</span><span style="color: #000000"> field without using elastic scaling. In this section, you specify the feature licenses for the new Infoblox vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> instance. In the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Metadata**</span><span style="color: #000000"> section, specify </span><span style="color: #000000">*user-data*</span><span style="color: #000000"> in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**key**</span><span style="color: #000000"> field and define the following values in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**value**</span><span style="color: #000000"> field:</span>

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- `remote_console_enabled`<span style="color: #000000">: Enter </span>`y`<span style="color: #000000"> to enable the remote SSH CLI console for a new instance. To disable the remote SSH CLI, enter </span>`n`<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
- `temp_license`<span style="color: #000000">: Defines the NIOS feature licenses for the new instance. You can list a collection of temporary license names that apply to the instance during the initial boot. Using this directive allows you to quickly provision the new instance with temporary licenses without having to open a NIOS CLI session to do the same task. To access the NIOS GUI, you must provision the vNIOS license before you start the vNIOS instance.</span>

> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">Specify the NIOS model license with the temporary licenses in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Userdata**</span><span style="color: #000000"> field to provision temporary licenses.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox recommends that you also provision the Grid and cloud licenses at the same time as follows: </span>  
`temp_license:grid cloud vnios`<span style="color: #000000">. </span>

<span style="color: #000000">All text entries must be in lower case. Valid license names include the following:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">TE- Infoblox vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> instances (</span>`TE-825`, `TE-1425`<span style="color: #000000">, and </span>`TE-2225`<span style="color: #000000">):</span>
- `nios`
- `grid`
- `dns`
- `enterprise`
- `cloud`
- <span style="color: #000000">NIOS license for DDI (</span>`TE-V825, TE-V1425, TE-V2225, CP-V805, CP-V1405`<span style="color: #000000">, and </span>`CP-V2205`<span style="color: #000000">): </span>  
<span style="color: #000000">nios IB-Vxxxx, where "xxxx" is the license number.</span>

> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">To provision vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> using elastic scaling, specify the Grid Master IP address of the vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> instance in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Userdata**</span><span style="color: #000000"> field.</span>